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Helen Pletts 海伦·普莱茨 www.helenpletts.com English co-translator of Chinese poet Ma Yongbo 马永波, who is her official Chinese translator. She is a committee member of CB1 Poetry poetry readings, Cambridge, UK. Translated into Chinese and ten other languages.
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Are you following The Ma Yongbo Poetry Road Trip - Summer Tour? Join us at Volume 33 and look back on all the episodes, sometimes we are spiders, sometimes an eel and a salmon, but we are always Bear and Kitten internationaltimes.it?s=ma+yongbo+...
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Cambridge-based writer Jem K Hubbard has won The Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers for his collection of poems 👇 #BookSky
Jem K Hubbard wins The Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers
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July 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Are you following The Ma Yongbo Poetry Road Trip - Summer Tour? Join us at Volume 33 and look back on all the episodes, sometimes we are spiders, sometimes an eel and a salmon, but we are always Bear and Kitten internationaltimes.it?s=ma+yongbo+...
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January 27, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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Nolcha Fox and my Bilingual Poetry Collection , "Border Conversations," published by Ukiyoto.

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Border Conversations | Ukiyoto Publishing
What a wonderful book!! In "Border Conversations," the reader is treated to poems that feel like intimate conversations on a wide range of subjects. This is not a quick read. It's one to be savored sl...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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I'm delighted to be included in VOX POPULI list of most popular posts of 2025. Thank you, Michael Simms, for creating this space. I've met many outstanding poets here. Congratulations to every one on the list!

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Ma Yongbo: Three poems translated from Chinese
The horse drawn cart hasn’t gone far, it will carry away the love of the land, and one or two shy grasshoppers. At this moment, her hanging sickle reflects the white light of winter arising in the …
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January 3, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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"Anne Sexton, October 4, 1974," "Village Church," and "Hesitation Before the Journey Begins"
Anne Sexton, October 4, 1974 She and Maxine Kumin had a silly, cheerful lunch,  they kept interrupting their conversation to watch chickadees eating at the feeder by the window,they went over the proo...
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January 5, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Revisiting 'Reconnaître', exquisite Word & Image from Helen Pletts and Romit Berger originally published on IS&T in November 2017 and this time accompanied by a fine translation by Ma Yongbo. @mayongbo.bsky.social

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Central image of a young girl dancing under the stars with a bird (corncrake) dancing next to her. Just visible in the sky the text: 'I use the skills of the corncrake tonight. / I need to remember in the hatchling hour, that I was here, –' Outer text: (Top) Reconnaître (Below) Word & Image / Translation from Helen Pletts, Romit Berger, Ma Yongbo 马永波
December 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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includes:
Response poetry by Helen and me on the theme "Every Year";
News of the publication of Nolcha Fox's bilingual collection with me, "Border Conversations," along with sample poems ;
and news of Vox Populi's 10 most popular poetry posts of 2025.

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Ma Yongbo Poetry Road Trip — Summer Tour 2025 volume 32 | IT
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January 10, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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7 Poems by Nolcha Fox in English and Chinese from our CO-collection of BORDER CONVERSATIONS

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January 20, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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January 23, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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thank you, Helen, for translating my brother's poems, which made this memorial possible! And thank you, Claire, for your continued support!

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Ma Yongbo Poetry Road Trip  — Summer Tour 2025 volume 33 | IT
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January 24, 2026 at 2:16 PM